Sandro De Silvestri#
| Membership Number: | 4948 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fisi.polimi.it |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 Full Professor in Physics at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 1988 Associate Professor in Physics at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- 1984 - 1985 visiting scientist at MIT (Cambridge, USA)
- 1977 - 1987 Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Developments of picosecond lasers and applications to photo-physics and to photo-chemistry
- Resonator design of solid-state lasers of high brightness
- Development of femtosecond lasers
- Femtosecond optical parametric amplifiers in the near infrared and in the visible
- Applications of ultrashort laser pulses to non-linear optics
- Applications of ultrashort laser pulses to study of ultrafast processes in polymers and quantum confined systems
- Pulse compression of high-energy femtosecond pulses by non-linear techniques
- Coherent vibrational dynamics in organic molecules
- High-order harmonic generation for production of coherent radiation in the XUV
- Attosecond science
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- Fellow of the European Physical Society
